Toilet seat cover dispenser



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' x ATTORNEY5 Patented Apr. 4, 1939 UNITED STATES rATENT orrlcsApplication April 15,

2 Claims.

This invention relates to toilet seat covers of a type in which a holderis provided, having a delivery opening in its forward wall through whichthe seat covers may be drawn in succession. In

most dispensers of this type, a pack of seat covers is placed within theholder, and from time to time a service man renews the seat covers. Itfrequently happens that the seat covers will all be used before theservice man returns to replenish them.

Heretofore, seat covers for such dispensers have been provided in packs,and supported upon a pin passing through the pack, and when each seatcover is removed, it is torn away from the pin. This mutilates the seatcover, and is undesirable.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a seat coverdispenser of simple construction. which is so constructed that it cansupport a considerable number of seat covers within it withoutnecessitating the employment of a supporting pin.

A further object of the invention is to provide a seat cover dispenserof this kind, having means for supporting the seat covers in packs, eachpack being carried in its own envelope so that the pack can beconveniently handled in placing the same in the holder; also to providea construction for the holder, and envelopes, which will enable aplurality of holders to be placed one behind the other in the holder,the arrangement being such that when the seat covers in the foremostenveloped have been removed, the seat covers in the next adjacentenvelope behind the same will be accessible and capable of being removedthrough the foremost envelope and through the delivery opening of theforward wall of the holder. 1

Further objects of the invention will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel parts and combination of parts to bedescribed hereinafter, all of which contribute to produce an efficienttoilet seat cover dispenser.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is described in the followingspecification, while the broad scope of the invention is pointed out inthe appended claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a holder supplied with packs of seatcovers, each pack being in its own envelope.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through this holder or dispenser, taken onthe line 2-2 of Fig. 1, but upon an enlarged scale and. showing a por-1938, Serial No. 202,214

tion of a wall or support'to which the rear wall of the dispenser issecured.

V Fig. 3 is a front elevation of one of the envelopes removed from theholder. In this View a portion of the forward wall of the envelope is 5broken away.

Referring more particularly to the parts, I indicates the completeholder, which is preferably of box-form; that is to say, it is ofrectangular form in front elevation, and of relatively nar- 10 row depthmeasured in a horizontal plane at right angles to the wall or support 2to which the holder is preferably attached. The holder has a forwardwall 3, which may be composed of a lower section 3a and an upper section3b, with 15 a relatively large opening 4 formed between the same (seeFig. 1). This opening 4 is preferably provided with an upwardlyextending notch 5 located about on the middle or vertical axis throughthe holder, as viewed from the front. The upper 20 section 3b of theforward wall is preferably formed as a part of a cover 6, which isadapted to slip down over the upper end of the body I, which is open atits upper side.

In Fig. 2 I illustrate a holder supplied with a 25 plurality ofenvelopes 1 and 8. In the present instance, I have illustrated two ofthese envelopes, but it should be understood that in practice, anynumber of these envelopes that may be desired may be supplied. One ofthese envelopes 30 is illustrated in Fig. 3, and without any seat coverswithin it so as toshow that the front wall 9 and the rear wall ID ofeach envelope is formed with an opening II, and these openings ll mayhave substantially the same shape approximating 35 the shape of theopening 4, and provided with an upwardly extending notch l2 thatcorresponds to the notch 5 in the forward wall of the holder. Withineach envelope packs of seat covers l3 are provided, and these seatcovers are folded before placing the same in the envelope so that eachseat cover has a flap l4 on its forward side presented at the opening 4,and preferably so that the upper edge of this flap: I4 is held back bythe upper edge of the opening 4 in the vicinity of the notch 5. Withthis arrangement it will be evident that when the pack of seat coverscarried in the foremost envelope become exhausted, the flaps M of theseat covers in the next adjacent envelope to the rear will be exposedthrough the delivery opening 4 in the forward wall of the holder, andthrough the registering openings I l in the foremost envelope 1.

When the supply man discovers that the foremost envelope is empty, hemay remove it and substitute an envelope full of seat covers. In doingthis it is preferable to move the rearmost envelope to the front. Due tothe fact that the envelopes are relatively narrow, they will operate tosupport the seat covers upright without the necessity for using any pinfrom which the seat covers must be torn.

In order to facilitate mounting the dispenser on a Wall, and in order toavoid the necessity for using a complete metal back for the dispenser orholder, I prefer to provide the rear of the holder with a transverse barI6 (see Fig. 2) which is simply an elongated plate preferably pressedwith horizontal ribs I! to give it stiffness. These ribs rest againstthe forward face of the wall 2 to which the holder is attached by meansof a screw, or screws, such as the screw l8, that pass through anopening in the bar l6. This opening is located opposite the forwardopening 4 in the dispenser, so that the head of the screw is readilyaccessible in using a screwdriver to seat the screw.

What I claim is:

1. In a toilet seat coverdispenser, the combination of a holder having aforward wall with an opening therein, a plurality of seat coverenvelopes received in the said holder, disposed one behind the other,said envelopes having forward and rear walls with openings thereinregistering with the opening in the forward Wall of the holder, saidenvelopes operating to carry packs of the seat covers accessible throughthe aligning openings, and cooperating with the holder so that when theseat covers in the foremost envelope have been withdrawn through thesaid forward opening in the holder, then the seat covers in the nextadjacent envelope toward the rear can be removed by pulling the samethrough the aligning openings. in the outermost envelope and through thesaid forward opening of the holder.

2. A toilet seat cover dispenser constructed as described in claim 1, inwhich the upper edge of the delivery opening in the forward wall of theholder is formed with an upwardly extending notch through which accessmay be had to reach an edge of the foremost seat cover within theholder.

JAMES H. SHELLEY.

